Unfair Outcomes Destroy Trust: What could cause widespread backlash against AI?
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Unfair Outcomes Destroy Trust: What could cause widespread backlash against AI?

Will AI that discriminates based on race, gender, or economic status undermine the public’s confidence in the technology? Seduced by the promise of cost savings and data-driven decision making, organizations will deploy biased systems that end up doing real-world damage.

October 28, 20201 min read
YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies
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YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies

Facing a tsunami of user-generated disinformation, YouTube is scrambling to stop its recommendation algorithm from promoting videos that spread potentially dangerous falsehoods.

September 23, 20202 min read
YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies
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YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies

Facing a tsunami of user-generated disinformation, YouTube is scrambling to stop its recommendation algorithm from promoting videos that spread potentially dangerous falsehoods.

September 23, 20202 min read
Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.
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Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.

Three of the biggest AI vendors pledged to stop providing face recognition services to police — but other companies continue to serve the law-enforcement market.

June 24, 20201 min read
Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.
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Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.

Three of the biggest AI vendors pledged to stop providing face recognition services to police — but other companies continue to serve the law-enforcement market.

June 24, 20201 min read
Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector
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Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector

Facebook uses automated systems to block hate speech, but hateful posts can slip through when seemingly benign words and pictures combine to create a nasty message. The social network is tackling this problem by enhancing AI’s ability to recognize context.

June 17, 20202 min read
Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector
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Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector

Facebook uses automated systems to block hate speech, but hateful posts can slip through when seemingly benign words and pictures combine to create a nasty message. The social network is tackling this problem by enhancing AI’s ability to recognize context.

June 17, 20202 min read
Facebook Likes Extreme Content: Facebook execs rejected changes to reduce polarization.
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Facebook Likes Extreme Content: Facebook execs rejected changes to reduce polarization.

Facebook’s leadership has thwarted changes in its algorithms aimed at making the site less polarizing, according to the Wall Street Journal. The social network’s own researchers determined that its AI software promotes divisive content.

June 3, 20202 min read
Facebook Likes Extreme Content: Facebook execs rejected changes to reduce polarization.
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Facebook Likes Extreme Content: Facebook execs rejected changes to reduce polarization.

Facebook’s leadership has thwarted changes in its algorithms aimed at making the site less polarizing, according to the Wall Street Journal. The social network’s own researchers determined that its AI software promotes divisive content.

June 3, 20202 min read
Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers
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Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers

A consortium of top AI experts proposed concrete steps to help machine learning engineers secure the public’s trust. Dozens of researchers and technologists recommended actions to counter public skepticism toward artificial intelligence, fueled by issues like data privacy.

April 29, 20201 min read
Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers
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Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers

A consortium of top AI experts proposed concrete steps to help machine learning engineers secure the public’s trust. Dozens of researchers and technologists recommended actions to counter public skepticism toward artificial intelligence, fueled by issues like data privacy.

April 29, 20201 min read
Where Are the Live Bombs?: Computer vision identifies unexploded bombs in Cambodia.
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Where Are the Live Bombs?: Computer vision identifies unexploded bombs in Cambodia.

Unexploded munitions from past wars continue to kill and maim thousands of people every year. Computer vision is helping researchers figure out where these dormant weapons are likely to be.

April 1, 20202 min read
Where Are the Live Bombs?: Computer vision identifies unexploded bombs in Cambodia.
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Where Are the Live Bombs?: Computer vision identifies unexploded bombs in Cambodia.

Unexploded munitions from past wars continue to kill and maim thousands of people every year. Computer vision is helping researchers figure out where these dormant weapons are likely to be.

April 1, 20202 min read
Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.
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Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.

A prominent AI researcher has turned his back on computer vision over ethical issues. The co-creator of the popular object-recognition network You Only Look Once (YOLO) said he no longer works on computer vision because the technology has “almost no upside and enormous downside risk.”

March 4, 20201 min read
Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.
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Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.

A prominent AI researcher has turned his back on computer vision over ethical issues. The co-creator of the popular object-recognition network You Only Look Once (YOLO) said he no longer works on computer vision because the technology has “almost no upside and enormous downside risk.”

March 4, 20201 min read

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